From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:27:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edsqmj$gh3$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9e4733910609081413p32456768g280bdc9b232d7902@mail.gmail.com
Jon Smirl wrote:
>> > Here is another way to look at the shallow clone problem. The only
>> > public ids in a git tree are the head and tag pointers. Send these to
>> > the client. Now let's modify the git tools to fault the full objects
>> > in one by one from the server whenever a git operation needs the
>> > object. Dangling references would point to 'not-present' objects.
>>
>> Er... that would fault in a gigabyte the first time someone ran gitk,
>> or several other history-browsing commands. Don't you need a way to say
>> "tell the user this isn't present and will take an hour to download"?
>
> gitk would need to be modified to only run enough of the commit tree
> to draw what is displayed in the window. As you page down it would
> retrive more commits if needed. There is no need for gitk to run 250K
> commits when I'm usually never going to look at them all. Of course
> this may mean some rework for gitk.
Or remembering to set --max-count or --max-age parameters to gitk (which are
then passed to git-rev-list).
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-08 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-07 19:52 Change set based shallow clone Jon Smirl
2006-09-07 20:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-07 20:41 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-07 21:33 ` Jeff King
2006-09-07 21:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-07 21:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-07 22:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 23:09 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-10 23:20 ` Anand Kumria
2006-09-08 8:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-09-07 22:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 22:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-08 3:54 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-09-08 5:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-08 7:15 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-09-08 8:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-08 17:18 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-08 14:20 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-08 15:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-09 3:13 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-09 8:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-08 5:05 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2006-09-08 1:01 ` linux
2006-09-08 2:23 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-08 8:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-08 8:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-08 18:42 ` linux
2006-09-08 21:13 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-08 22:27 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-09-08 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-08 23:28 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-08 23:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09 1:45 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-10 12:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-10 14:56 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-10 16:10 ` linux
2006-09-10 18:00 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-10 19:03 ` linux
2006-09-10 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-10 21:00 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-11 2:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-10 22:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-11 2:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-11 3:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-11 6:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 8:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-11 14:26 ` linux
2006-09-11 15:01 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-11 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 21:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-11 23:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-12 0:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-12 0:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-12 0:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-11 9:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-10 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 0:04 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-11 0:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 0:03 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-11 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 1:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-11 2:44 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-11 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 6:08 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-11 7:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-11 17:52 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-11 2:11 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-09 1:05 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09 3:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-09 3:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09 4:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09 8:47 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-09 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09 18:04 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-09 18:44 ` linux
2006-09-09 19:17 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-09 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09 20:43 ` Jeff King
2006-09-09 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-09 21:14 ` Jeff King
2006-09-09 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09 22:54 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-10 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-10 1:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-10 3:49 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-10 4:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-10 4:23 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-10 4:46 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-10 4:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-10 5:14 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-10 5:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-10 15:21 ` linux
2006-09-10 18:32 ` Marco Costalba
2006-09-11 9:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-11 12:39 ` linux
2006-09-10 9:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-10 10:28 ` Josef Weidendorfer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-09 10:31 linux
2006-09-09 13:00 ` Marco Costalba
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